Faith Maintenance Quotes

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.

If you're not plugged into something like Athletes in Action or Campus Crusade, it's difficult to keep your eyes focused on Jesus Christ because the world is telling you differently, and your sin-nature is telling you differently.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

God's Word will never fall into disrepair. But here's what happens when we don't travel on it: We fall into disrepair!

Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because they know that forty minutes on Sunday is not enough to sustain them for a whole week, especially when they will encounter so many distractions and alternative messages.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.